The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

Description:Novel of a young woman who realizes the limitations of a West Kensington middle-class life and seeks a life on the London stage. Sir Compton Mackenzie was a prolific writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist.

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